68r1 and 2

[ReneZ]

Hypothesis: The number of tips on a star drawn in 68r1 and 68r2 represent some form of category of stars. What comes to my mind at first would be brightness/magnitude.
Remains to be tested.

I don't think the idea has ever been investigated in any detail.

I have looked at this in great detail for the stars in the zodiac illustrations, some time before 2000.
Here, stars have 6, 7, 8 or 9 points.

The working hypothesis was that the brightest stars have 9 points, and the least bright ones 6 points.
I found a number of very interesting features, but could not make a sufficiently convincing match.
In the end I could neither prove nor reject the hypothesis.
I was working with Ptolemy's catalogue, for magnitudes but also for longitude.
I was looking for copies of the catalogues of Al-Sufi and Ulugh Beg, but never found any.

This hypothesis has been in hibernation ever since.

Basically, if one assigns the stars to the degrees of the zodiac, either using longitude, or co-rising (paranatellonta), one gets charts that are essentially similar to the ones in the MS, but only qualitatively. It's as if the Voynich zodiac just 'looks like' such a chart, but isn't a real one.